Signals in Antarctica of Past Global Changes – the last 10,000 years (SAGES-10K, 2001-2005)

SAGES-10K was the forerunner to CACHE-PEP and ran from April 2001 to March 2005. The project drew on resources from all three BAS science divisions to study the natural climate variability of the last 10000 years, with a particular focus on the Antarctic Peninsula and surrounding regions. Three workpackages contributed data from lake sediments (led by the Project Leader, Dr. Dominic Hodgson), marine sediments (led by Dr. Carol Pudsey), and ice cores (led by Dr. Robert Mulvaney). Dr Eric Wolff was PI of the wider SAGES programme. Key objectives were related to past ice shelf break-up, and the regional patterns of Holocene climate change. The project interfaced with SAGES-500K focussing on the last 500,000 years and SAGES-AIR linking atmospheric chemistry and ice cores. Collectively these projects aimed to assemble knowledge of how the Earth System has worked in the past in order to constrain models that are used to predict future climate.